The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-11
COMMENT AND OPINION.

WELE! we'll! Little Rhody with Democratic
Governor will feel like Jonah VINO has swal-
lowed whale. There political we'll as
physical earthquakes. and this was one OF them.
philadelphia Record.
Mr.. HURD, of Ohio. says that freetrade ideas
are fast gaining ground. Other prominent lead
ers tells US that protection never had so many
friends as it has now. We are living in puzzling
times.-St. Louis Chronicle.
The wonder is not that law and order carried
the day in Chicago but that there should have
been any doubt of its triumph. The existence
Of such doubt is suggestive. 1t is an mputa-
ton upon Western civilization. and a stain upon
the record of the Republic .-Phiadelphia North
American.
THIS is time in which Republicans should
demand that their leaders shall consecrate their
efforts to building up the party and not to boom
ing booms Let the conditions of Republican
success be secured this year and let discussions
of presidential candidates. have q vacation-New
York Mail and Express.
ACCORDING to the ethics of the District Medi-
cal Association, it is upprotessional for regular
physician to advertise his business in the news
papers. Yet the rarest of all phenomena is
doctor who kicks against the publication of his
name Or exploits matter of gratuitous COM
plimeHt. There is economy, if not consist ency,
in medical ethics. Washington Critic.
THE Kansas experiment failed to bear out the
assertion of the woman suffragists, that the in
tellgence and morality of the whole body Of
the right to vote to women, the better class of
women failing to take any interest in the matter.
It4s evident that the bulk of the agitation here
after should be devoted to the women who can
vote and do not care o.-Phlladelphia Times
SECRETARY ENDIcoTT is a man of lovely tenn
per. He quarreled with the Massachusetts
Democrats before he went into the Cabinet
Since he has been Secretary of War he has
quarreled with Surgeon-general Moore and Gen.
Sheridan, and now he is in fresh quarrel with
Mr.. Maynard, the Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury. In the meantime what has this Bay
State chestnut done to help the administration
or the partyl-Atlanta Constitution
JUDGE HOLMAN. the Indiana objector and
| cheese paring economist predicts that the Dem
| ocrasic majority in the Fftieth House of Repre-
| sentatives will do something TO decrease the
| taxes and reduce tine surplus The Judge was a
| member of tine Forty ninth House, which gave
| promise of doing the same thing, but did it not
| The composition of the Fifteth House will be
similar to that of the Forty ninth except that
| Democratic majority of over forty will be re-
| duced to one of less than twenty.-Albany Elk
! press.
THE great labor vote at Cincinnati is distinctly
opposed to the Anarchist propaganda. After the
Chicago bomb throwing last year the Cincinnati
| Anarchists presumed to take the head of the
procession upon an occasion when all the trades
were TO turn out in public celebration. When
| the little knot of Anarchists walked up to the
front behind the red flag the labor unions of
! Cincinnati took vote right on the spot. and
| everyone of them refused to march behind the
red flag. 1t broke up the procession, but it put
q quietus on the Anarchists in that cty.-Sprins-
field Republican.
THE result in East st. Lonis shows that the
| people who are for law and order can always
take the necessary trouble. At the time of the
Missouri Pacific troubles last spring it seemed
though this suburb of St Louis were place
| given over beyond hope to the worst elements OF